The Montana FWP Commission has decided not to extend the wolf hunt in the Bitterroot area. While many claim that the elk declines seen there have been due to wolves but a recent study implicates cougars and a quick look at the historic numbers shows that poor hunting management has also contributed to the [...]
Continue Reading →Final figure to be about 163 166 wolves, 75% of quota-
Montana’s once extended, second wolf hunting season ends today. As of noon today, Feb. 15, 166 wolves had been reported killed in the hunt. Statewide this is about 75% of the quota set by Montana’s Fish, Wildlife and Parks commissioners. Three hunting units closed before [...]
Continue Reading →Commission gives initial approval on divided vote, but final approval might fail-
Like the Lolo in Idaho on the Idaho/Montana border, the decline of elk in the West Fork of the Bitterroot area (hunting district 250) in Montana in recent years has been widely blamed on wolves, but the Montana wolf hunters can’t seem to [...]
Continue Reading →122 killed in Montana; 195 in Idaho-
Two more areas in Montana have meet its wolf quota and will close Dec. 29. Areas 101 and 110 in NW Montana will close. In total 122 wolves have been killed in Montana. The Montana statewide quota is 220. Recently the state game commission extended the wolf hunt [...]
Continue Reading →Montana greatly extends wolf hunting season-
Idaho to kill supposed large population of Lolo wolves with helicopters-
Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission has extended their wolf hunt not for just a month but for a month and half, with maybe more to follow. Having reached only half their dead wolf quota in early December [...]
Continue Reading →Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks wants to extend wolf hunt another month, to end of January 2012-
Montana FWP choose a quota of 220 dead wolves statewide (with the various wolf hunting units having quotas too) for the state’s second wolf hunt, which begin Sept. 9, 2011. So far 98 dead wolves have been officially [...]
Continue Reading →Quota of 18 wolves was reached over a large area of the state-
Unit 390 which is the following counties closed after 18 wolves were killed and tagged. Prairie, Custer, Powder River, Silver Bow, Golden Valley, Fergus, Cascade, Meagher, Gallatin, Park, Judith Basin, Wheatland, Sweet Grass, Dawson, Stillwater, Carbon, Petroleum, Musselshell, Big Horn, Treasure, Rosebud, [...]
Continue Reading →Law makes hash of the talk of superb state level wolf management?
In the new Montana wolf hunt those who shoot a wolf can tag it and walk away, leaving the entire wolf on the ground. Nick Gevock of the Montana Standard just blew the whistle on this amendment that was sneaked into Montana’s game [...]
Continue Reading →9th Circuit Filings – Constitutional Challenge to Wolf Delisting Rider
^Update 10/18/11 – Posted: Alliance for the Wild Rockies et al’s Emergency Motion for Injunction Pending Appeal, Motion for Summary Judgement Response Briefs (Appellees US Fish and Wildlife Service; Intervenors RMEF, NRA, & Montana/Idaho Farm Bureaus; Montana Amicus Brief)
**Update 8/24/11 – Posted: Alliance for [...]
Continue Reading →Quota of three wolves is filled-
Montana wolf hunters have killed the small quota of just 3 wolves immediately north of Yellowstone Park, so the wolf hunt there is now closed. It is subunit 313-316 of wolf management unit 390.
The quota next to the Park was set low because it is bad public relations [...]
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